On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful ex
planation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze
, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction Financial Times a
nd New Statesman Books of the Year 2014. In the depths of the Great War, with mi
llions of dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world
began to buckle. As the cataclysmic battles continued, a new global order was b
eing born.
Adam Tooze's panoramic new book tells a radical, new story of the
struggle for global mastery from the battles of the Western Front in 1916 to the
Great Depression of the 1930s. The war shook the foundations of political and e
conomic order across Eurasia. Empires that had lasted since the Middle Ages coll
apsed into ruins.
